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Openmoko sells the [[Neo FreeRunner]] at a discount if bought in multiples of 10 (US$369, instead of 399), to be shipped in one package. Group buying will thus save money on the purchase, and on the shipping. This page is to organise group purchases by region.

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Some [[distributors]] are selling the [[Neo FreeRunner]] at a discount if bought in multiples of 10, to be shipped in one package. Group buying will thus save money on the purchase, and on the shipping. This page is to organise group purchases by region.

For calculating shipping costs, the dimensions of one 10-pack is 435mm x 371mm x 119mm. The weight should be around 3kg.

For calculating shipping costs, the dimensions of one 10-pack is 435mm x 371mm x 119mm. The weight should be around 3kg.

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Steve from Openmoko announced "Every 10 pack, will come with a box of stuff. 10 pouches and 10 head sets."

There is a group-buy page at MetaLab, available here: http://metalab.at/wiki/Openmoko .. we almost have the full 10 slots assigned, and its quite possible that we will order *20* phones, so please register on the Metalab pages and let us know if you're interested ..

confirmation: From Pulster.eu: ''Our sales price is 299 EUR + shipping 15 EUR in Europe = 314 EUR. The idea of "open" is ours. So check our price calculation: if you order the FreeRunner from Taiwan, it's 399 USD + 100 USD shipping + c. 90 USD "import taxes" inside Europe. Total 589 USD = c.380 EUR. So it will be cheaper and we Europeans have 2 years of warranty when buying from Pulster, instead of a 14 days(?) for imported goods.''

* Michael Mather - firstname.lastname AT teksavvy.com (Well, this group is going nowhere, so I bought a phone directly. WARNING: I got charged $55 brokerage fee by UPS to bring it across the border. Note that, what they call GST is actually GST + PST.)

If we do not reach a total large enough, Denmark **is** a very small place - surely we could figure out a way of getting them to find their way 'round the country :)

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=== EU (german) vs. Direct (Openmoko) discussion ===

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Esben Damgaard has created a Google Group discussion to evaluate which is the optimal:

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http://groups.google.com/group/freerunner-order-dk

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[[User:asbjorn | Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen]] [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/asbjorn (contact)] has [http://groups.google.com/group/freerunner-order-dk/browse_thread/thread/cd68b49d8520ecd2# offered] to act as invoice hub for group sales from either Openmoko or Handheld-Linux. [[User:asbjorn | Details]]

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=== Invoice considerations ===

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According to Lone Borre from SKAT.dk the rules are different if the buyer is private or a company. If a company buys the phone the invoice must be addressed to the company and the company must be a registered importer. This makes it harder to do a group sale in which 2 of the recipients need an invoice.

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=== Jutland ===

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==== Aalborg ====

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Status: 7/10

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Should anyone need it, transportation from Aalborg to Thisted for phones can be arranged, if you don't want to pick it up in Aalborg yourself :) ~leinir

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As it looks right now, it seems that it would be cheaper and easier for us to buy through Pulster in Germany - see the following email: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-May/017778.html ~leinir

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- It indeed is: [http://www.pulster.de/index.htm?d__om___b_Openmoko_FreeRunner__b_991.htm], the price is 299.00 EUR per piece i we buy 10, and shipping is 14.90 EUR.~Cybe

Kent & Lars: As of 5/7: We have ordered 10 units (all in all with Fyn) from handheld-linux.com. Arguments here: http://groups.google.com/group/freerunner-order-dk The deal is closed.

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* <strike>Martin Pedersen - [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/Cheeses contact me here] (1 phone; will join any danish group if necessary)</strike> Martin is also in on the above deal through Lars.

* [[User:asbjorn | Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen]] [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/asbjorn (contact)] (I need 1 with invoice) I has [http://groups.google.com/group/freerunner-order-dk/browse_thread/thread/cd68b49d8520ecd2# offered] to act as hub for group sales from Openmoko and Handheld-Linux.

I would like to get a group of 10 AUC student who are into Linux together to buy a block of ten of these. We could also include non-AUC students, expats, and others as well. They can be shipped to the University in el-Tagamoa el-Khamis. Contact me if you are interested for details or other information. I need to find out what the duty on ten phones would be here. --[[User:Paco758|Paco758]] 10:29, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

* [[Special:Emailuser/Spacemarine|Spacemarine]] I'm out. Since the FreeRunner is available for 300 Euro in Germany, I don't see any point in organizing a groupbuy anymore. I've sent an email to everyone else interested in the groupbuy. If you are in this list or if I met you on the Kalug Meeting, you should have gotten it.

<s>We have sent our order to Pulster two weeks ago. We are still waiting on the phones but hopefully they will arrive this week (01/09) - :-/

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We are now at 10 people and will be closing the order soon. If you want to join in add your name here and on the blog asap.

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Because [http://pulster.de Pulster] are offering the units at €299 apiece with a 2 year warranty and free shipping (without the freebies though) we are going to order from them and not direct from Taiwan.

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To register your interest for the Dublin shipment please post a comment on this [http://patrickoconnor.ie/blog/2008/07/01/openmoko-freerunner-limited-release/ blog post] and enter your details below.</s>

* [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/aclearn Aclearn] <s>- by the blog this makes me no.11 (nope, 1 person dropped out so you are number 10 - [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/patchrick Patchrick])</s>

I have copied these usernames across to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_Local_Groups:_Ireland

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== Israel==

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Status : 09/10

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According to isreal custom tax it can be problamatic to import more than 3 items ([http://bsh83.blogspot.com/2008/10/openmoko.html#comments Post that had been posted today on planet.linux.org.il about it])

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[[Fate]]: Got my FreeRunner directly from koolu, customs and post took in-total extra 500 nis for freeing it, but i did not have to do anything or fill any forms, ordered one unit, and it reached me. Good luck.

If we don't reach the 10 phones limit in each city, maybe we could place an order in the "most requested city", and from shipping to other buyers. We'll have anyway a good discount although the "double-shipping". ([http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openmoko.community/10937/focus=10981 Read here for reference]).

(Discuss this group sale on the [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Talk:GroupSales#The_Netherlands talk page])

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=== Special notice ===

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After discussion on the talk page, a number of us have decided to place an individual order at Pulster.eu, because they are cheaper than the group sale discount, and they deliver a receipt with VAT.<br />

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I'd advise the people on this group sale-list to do the same. <br />

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You can indeed place a group order at Pulster.eu, but that won't lower the price, and would only add extra shipping costs. (from the person who made the group-order to the individual members of the group) [[User:Madjo|MadJo]] 11:04, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

As Telecom are using the 850MHz network for their GSM network, while Vodafone and northelia (possibly aka orcon) are using 900/1800MHz, please state which version you want. This may need more research, I'm not 100%; see [http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_nz.shtml] for more info<br>

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===Shipping===

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Based on the Openmoko direct store, shipping is US$258.05 (US$25.81/phone)

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Someone on the community list suggested using [http://www.myus.com], a shipping company that will re-post items overseas at decent rates. They claim US$66 for a 3kg package, or NZ$8 per phone. Of course, the cost of shipping the phone from OM to the shipping company has to be added in as well.

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===Purchase cost===

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As of 2008-07-03 (exchange rate 0.7505), US$369 is worth NZ$492 and US$25.81 is worth NZ$34.39

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===Duty/taxes/other charges===

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import duty on mobile phones is 0%[http://www.customs.govt.nz/importers/Private+Importers/Customs+Charges.htm], and GST is 12.5% so the GST added to each phone will be NZ$65.80; 12.5% * (492 + 34.39), 'cause we pay GST on postage too...

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You'll also need to add on disbursement fees etc. If it's UPS it's not too bad (~NZ$40) if it comes through NZ Post then it can be ~NZ$120.

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So, the total cost of a FreeRunner as part of a 10 pack, will be:<br>

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492 + 34.39 + 65.80 = NZ$592.19 + NZ$4 = '''~NZ$596'''

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Also, for the person buying, don't forget that there is likely charges from VISA for foreign exchange. ASB is 2.1% of the purchase price which will add ~$12.50 ea. to the price.

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'''[http://nicegear.co.nz nicegear]''' may be bringing some in depending on pricing from Openmoko.

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Glen ogilvie made a suggestion, that we could use a company (e.g. someone's employer, who are likely to have easily found contact details and thus be trustworthy) to buy the phones on our behalf (after we'd paid for them), and then deliver them to us. <br>

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Dave Lane: I think '''[http://egressive.com Egressive]''' would be willing to act as an intermediary. Contact me to discuss it...<br/>

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*Paul Sandkuijl [[User:Edictor]]

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Our order is underway so we closed our group to any more people.

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[[User:JohnCarter]] I'm confused now. Is the following a list of people about to do a group buy, or a list of people who already have done a group buy? In which case can we move them to a different section so we can start up another.

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*Rob Paulson [[User:Myfanwy]] [mailto:robin.paulson@gmail.com] 900MHz

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**i'm quite happy to organise the purchase, if no-one has any objections. to ease any worries about me running off with the money, we could use an escrow service such as [http://safetrader.co.nz], or paypal. or does anyone have any other ideas?

''Note: An order was already made to Pulster. The names of the people on that group buy was removed from this list.''

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Shop is open (currently only 850MHz version available. We want 900MHz): Shipping cost to Portugal for 10-pack: $219.07, ~ 14 EUR per device.

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We also need to have a cost estimation for Portuguese customs (like the Australians did). 20% sales tax + customs tax is to be expected both for individual or bulk sales, because the price is quite high. But freedom is priceless :)

We have a google group for discussion about a possible Swedish group order: freerunner-sverige@googlegroups.com, see [http://groups.google.com/group/freerunner-sverige Svensk Gruppbeställning av FreeRunner]. Please join the discussion!

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If we end up with more than one 10-pack in Sweden, my guess is that it would probably pay to order everything in one shipment to one address in Sweden to save on the international shipping, and then remail domestically.

* [[User:saas2813 | Samuel Åslund ]] [[Special:Emailuser/saas2813 | (contact)]] 1 Debug ( or phone only if the complete box is not available.) <br /> I actually belong in Uppsala but I'd rather get it soon.

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* Jörgen Lidholm, could join the Falun/Borlänge or Stockholm group <br /> [mailto:jorgen.lidholm@gmail.com]

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* John Törnblom, can also join the Stockholm group <br /> [mailto:f04jto@student.lth.se]

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* [[User:mh|mh]] 1 unit, mailto:mh@rcc.se If not up to 10 by launch. i'd join any group and either pick it up or have it remailed nationally

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* Juxtabox sàrl (Lausanne) [http://www.mokophoneshop.com]

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1x 10 Pack ordered from pulster for the group Zürich! Read more below --[[User:Tuxfux.ch|Tuxfux.ch]] 17:20, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

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'''???''' should organize the 3 x 10pack for Zürich <br />

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Luca Capello could organize the 10pack for Geneva. <br />

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Mathieu will organisze the 2 x 10pack for Lausanne EPFL CH-fr <br />

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All payment in advance (a 10pack will cost approx 3'800 USD). <br />

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'''Probably we will organize shippings, if we cannot all move to Zürich/Genève/Lausanne to get our Neo.'''

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''François Bianco is trying to create a new group of 10 (will be mostly for French Switzerland). -> The group moved to the EPFL group, which will try to reach 20 persons. --[[User:Fbianco|Fbianco]] 11:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)''<br />

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''Gabriel Ambuehl would volunteer to order the initial 10pack. <- still accurate ? -> Gabriel will not organize the 10packs for Zürich due to not being in Switzerland. We are in contact to find a solution so please wait until we know what to do. Order in Germany (each for himself or as a group, not clear yet) could be as cheap as a 10pack. We are in contact with pulster.de and will be contacted form pulster about the price. We will contact you guys in the Zürich list as soon as we know more --[[User:Tuxfux.ch|Tuxfux.ch]] 10:26, 6 June 2008 (UTC)''<br />

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''Alexandre Ghisoli will not organize the second 10pack, since the order moved in the Lucca's group.'' <br />

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I called the [http://www.ezv.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en Swiss Federal Customs Administration] and it seems that we only need to pay VAT (7.6%) and the UPS taxes as well (since the parcel will be sent through UPS). Thus I called [http://www.ups.com/content/ch/en/contact/ UPS] and it seems that UPS directly pays the VAT instead of the customer, then asking the customer for refund (plus a fixed tax of EUR13.00). So I think the following per-phone cost for a Swiss bulk order should be a good estimate.

'''I ordered the 10pack. Delivery is in mid september (plus shipping to Zurich.)'''

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I will organice the next 10pack as soon as this list is full. You may Pick up the Phone at the ETH Zürich (money: exact amount in cash or directly to my bank-account in advance) or I will send it to you (money: directly to my bank-account in advance including the Porto). The other conditions are the same as above. (Joerg Maeder/Goergel)

There is a problem with the GPS in the currently shipping FreeRunners: [http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openmoko-community/2008/7/18/2562474 Mail archive]. I already orderd 200 "10pf NPO 50V 0402" capacitors for convenient reselling. They will arrive within 10 days from now (2008.07.21).

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The conditions to get those capacitors from me:

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* You send me an envelope with CHF 2.- (coin) and an already to yourself addressed and stamped envelope

* Ian Douglas, Santa Monica <br /> I'll help organize a group sale, meet & greet, but since I was selected to help test the FreeRunner, I won't need to actually purchase one. [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/Iandouglas Contact me here]

* Elektrolott - (Cash, 900MHz) [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/Elektrolott Contact] (San Jose). <br> I am back on the list, as the [http://us.direct.openmoko.com/products/neo-freerunner online store] says: GSM 900Mhz variant stock is due on on July 25th. <br>I am also interested in getting a debug board.

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* Adilson Oliveira - 900Mhz [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Adilson Contact]. <br> I'll drop if the phones are not available to deliver during the LinuxWorld week and buy individually later.

(Between the 2 groups, we already have 7 "visibly" from Worchester - Western MA...I think the group should be resorted....Who is the contact where the package will be sent?)

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* Looking to Join in. I have been trying to get a response from anyone about joining group but nothing back. Live in Boston but will travel to get. Somebody let me know soon please. Interest in user group in Boston Cambridge area too. [mailto:Liamrb@msn.com email me]

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* Tyrell Berry [[Special:Emailuser/Alawatsakima|Contact]]

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* Joe Wells (Edinburgh) [http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~jbw/ Web] I have two comments:

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** The Wiki's e-mail feature (those URLs with “Special:Emailuser” in them) does not seem to be working. I tried contacting Dave Ball and Stuart MacKinnon that way and got no reply. Later, Stuart and Dave (who I reached by writing a message here) told me they never got the e-mail. So the Wiki's e-mail feature might be broken. So please contact me by going to my web page and using my e-mail address listed there. Stuart, George, and Dave have been in contact with me by e-mail. I am happy to put anyone in Scotland who sends me e-mail in touch with the others.

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** Not enough people have gotten in touch so far (as of 2008-06-28) to justify a bulk order of a 10-pack. Also, there is now a UK distributor: [https://www.truebox.co.uk/trueboxportal/index.php?wk=Openmoko TrueBox]. Because TrueBox appears to be ordering 10-packs (and thereby getting the bonus goodies (headphones and pouches) that come in the 10-packs), it seems there is little motivation to try to organize a Scottish bulk order. So I am likely to give up on the idea of a Scottish bulk order for myself (unless lots of people contact me in the next day or so!).

phone 399-365 USD ( 365 if we got 10-pack price, but if not exactly 10, I prefer we share the discount.)

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080730 status update by mkl23

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Thanks to the generosity of Harry of openmoko, there will be a group sale in Taiwan for sure.

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If we can collect 10 piece, then we could have the 10-pack price. But even if we can't , they would still accept the order.

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One that are interested in Taiwan, please send an e-mail to mkl23@hotmail.com, and specify the amount of the phone, debug board(DBoard), and spare packs that you want, along with your name and phone number.

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I don't have such group sale experience yet, so mail me if you have any concern or question want to ask.

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NOTE: This page is outdated. If anyone want to hold a gorup sales, feel free to create other page.

Some distributors are selling the Neo FreeRunner at a discount if bought in multiples of 10, to be shipped in one package. Group buying will thus save money on the purchase, and on the shipping. This page is to organise group purchases by region.

For calculating shipping costs, the dimensions of one 10-pack is 435mm x 371mm x 119mm. The weight should be around 3kg.

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NOTE: This page is outdated. If anyone want to hold a gorup sales, feel free to create other page.

Openmoko sells the Neo FreeRunner at a discount if bought in multiples of 10 (US$369, instead of 399), to be shipped in one package. Group buying will thus save money on the purchase, and on the shipping. This page is to organise group purchases by region.

For calculating shipping costs, the dimensions of one 10-pack is 435mm x 371mm x 119mm. The weight should be around 3kg.

Steve from Openmoko announced "Every 10 pack, will come with a box of stuff. 10 pouches and 10 head sets."
So join us within a local group !

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Austria

There is a group-buy page at MetaLab, available here: http://metalab.at/wiki/Openmoko .. we almost have the full 10 slots assigned, and its quite possible that we will order *20* phones, so please register on the Metalab pages and let us know if you're interested ..

Bahrain

Belarus

Minsk

Belgium

Brussels

Status 6/10

NO Openmoko FreeRunner 900/1800 available anymore (on July 3, 2008 at 21h) as needed in Europe. Furthermore,
confirmation: From Pulster.eu: Our sales price is 299 EUR + shipping 15 EUR in Europe = 314 EUR. The idea of "open" is ours. So check our price calculation: if you order the FreeRunner from Taiwan, it's 399 USD + 100 USD shipping + c. 90 USD "import taxes" inside Europe. Total 589 USD = c.380 EUR. So it will be cheaper and we Europeans have 2 years of warranty when buying from Pulster, instead of a 14 days(?) for imported goods.

Groupsales from pulster.eu are possible with a reduction (their normal price is 329 EUR):GroupSales: Ordering 10 units or more (no need for multiples of 10) we are pleased to offer 299 EUR - tell us your country and we work out the best way of transaction.You can make a order now to be sure to get a freerunner with our next delivery which we expect 08/15/08 (15.August).

Michael Mather - firstname.lastname AT teksavvy.com (Well, this group is going nowhere, so I bought a phone directly. WARNING: I got charged $55 brokerage fee by UPS to bring it across the border. Note that, what they call GST is actually GST + PST.)

David Camp - lastname at avidsolutions.com

Group 5 Status (Ottawa): 2 / 10

Mathieu Charron - mathieu.charron AT elwillow.net (maybe 2 units, one for a friend)

Invoice considerations

According to Lone Borre from SKAT.dk the rules are different if the buyer is private or a company. If a company buys the phone the invoice must be addressed to the company and the company must be a registered importer. This makes it harder to do a group sale in which 2 of the recipients need an invoice.

Jutland

Aalborg

Status: 7/10

Should anyone need it, transportation from Aalborg to Thisted for phones can be arranged, if you don't want to pick it up in Aalborg yourself :) ~leinir

Egypt

Cairo

American University in Cairo

I would like to get a group of 10 AUC student who are into Linux together to buy a block of ten of these. We could also include non-AUC students, expats, and others as well. They can be shipped to the University in el-Tagamoa el-Khamis. Contact me if you are interested for details or other information. I need to find out what the duty on ten phones would be here. --Paco758 10:29, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Pulster.de now sells individual phones at 249€/phone, but 10-packs at 229€/phone.

Already ordered

Uusimaa

(Note to gta02v6 waiting people:"The A5 boards have been reworked to remove the [LED] issue. So WRT
LEDs a5 and a6 have the same power consumption". So, there is should be no reason to wait for V6. See also Neo FreeRunner GTA02 Hardware#GTA02v6.)

Alpes de Haute Provence

Manosque

Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur

Sophia Antipolis

Midi-Pyrénées

Toulouse

Germany

Baden-Württemberg

Karlsruhe

Out:

Spacemarine I'm out. Since the FreeRunner is available for 300 Euro in Germany, I don't see any point in organizing a groupbuy anymore. I've sent an email to everyone else interested in the groupbuy. If you are in this list or if I met you on the Kalug Meeting, you should have gotten it.

Israel

Fate: Got my FreeRunner directly from koolu, customs and post took in-total extra 500 nis for freeing it, but i did not have to do anything or fill any forms, ordered one unit, and it reached me. Good luck.

If we don't reach the 10 phones limit in each city, maybe we could place an order in the "most requested city", and from shipping to other buyers. We'll have anyway a good discount although the "double-shipping". (Read here for reference).

Ciudad Victoria

Special notice

After discussion on the talk page, a number of us have decided to place an individual order at Pulster.eu, because they are cheaper than the group sale discount, and they deliver a receipt with VAT.
I'd advise the people on this group sale-list to do the same.
You can indeed place a group order at Pulster.eu, but that won't lower the price, and would only add extra shipping costs. (from the person who made the group-order to the individual members of the group) MadJo 11:04, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Rotterdam

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Utrecht

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New Zealand

Networks

As Telecom are using the 850MHz network for their GSM network, while Vodafone and northelia (possibly aka orcon) are using 900/1800MHz, please state which version you want. This may need more research, I'm not 100%; see [12] for more info

Shipping

Based on the Openmoko direct store, shipping is US$258.05 (US$25.81/phone)

Someone on the community list suggested using [13], a shipping company that will re-post items overseas at decent rates. They claim US$66 for a 3kg package, or NZ$8 per phone. Of course, the cost of shipping the phone from OM to the shipping company has to be added in as well.

Purchase cost

As of 2008-07-03 (exchange rate 0.7505), US$369 is worth NZ$492 and US$25.81 is worth NZ$34.39

Duty/taxes/other charges

import duty on mobile phones is 0%[14], and GST is 12.5% so the GST added to each phone will be NZ$65.80; 12.5% * (492 + 34.39), 'cause we pay GST on postage too...

You'll also need to add on disbursement fees etc. If it's UPS it's not too bad (~NZ$40) if it comes through NZ Post then it can be ~NZ$120.

So, the total cost of a FreeRunner as part of a 10 pack, will be:
492 + 34.39 + 65.80 = NZ$592.19 + NZ$4 = ~NZ$596

+ any possible charges to get it posted elsewhere in New Zealand.

Also, for the person buying, don't forget that there is likely charges from VISA for foreign exchange. ASB is 2.1% of the purchase price which will add ~$12.50 ea. to the price.

Auckland

Auckland

Status:10 phones requested, the required minimum (10 phones) is reached, but more buyers are still welcome to join.
13/20

Intermediary

Glen ogilvie made a suggestion, that we could use a company (e.g. someone's employer, who are likely to have easily found contact details and thus be trustworthy) to buy the phones on our behalf (after we'd paid for them), and then deliver them to us.
any volunteers? do any of you have understanding bosses/your own company that could help out here?
Dave Lane: I think Egressive would be willing to act as an intermediary. Contact me to discuss it...

User:JohnCarter I'm confused now. Is the following a list of people about to do a group buy, or a list of people who already have done a group buy? In which case can we move them to a different section so we can start up another.

Purchaser List

i'm quite happy to organise the purchase, if no-one has any objections. to ease any worries about me running off with the money, we could use an escrow service such as [16], or paypal. or does anyone have any other ideas?

Poland

Portugal

Note: An order was already made to Pulster. The names of the people on that group buy was removed from this list.

Shop is open (currently only 850MHz version available. We want 900MHz): Shipping cost to Portugal for 10-pack: $219.07, ~ 14 EUR per device.

We also need to have a cost estimation for Portuguese customs (like the Australians did). 20% sales tax + customs tax is to be expected both for individual or bulk sales, because the price is quite high. But freedom is priceless :)

If we end up with more than one 10-pack in Sweden, my guess is that it would probably pay to order everything in one shipment to one address in Sweden to save on the international shipping, and then remail domestically.

Switzerland

Online Shop Lausanne :

1x 10 Pack ordered from pulster for the group Zürich! Read more below --Tuxfux.ch 17:20, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

??? should organize the 3 x 10pack for Zürich
Luca Capello could organize the 10pack for Geneva.
Mathieu will organisze the 2 x 10pack for Lausanne EPFL CH-fr

All payment in advance (a 10pack will cost approx 3'800 USD).

Probably we will organize shippings, if we cannot all move to Zürich/Genève/Lausanne to get our Neo.

François Bianco is trying to create a new group of 10 (will be mostly for French Switzerland). -> The group moved to the EPFL group, which will try to reach 20 persons. --Fbianco 11:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)Gabriel Ambuehl would volunteer to order the initial 10pack. <- still accurate ? -> Gabriel will not organize the 10packs for Zürich due to not being in Switzerland. We are in contact to find a solution so please wait until we know what to do. Order in Germany (each for himself or as a group, not clear yet) could be as cheap as a 10pack. We are in contact with pulster.de and will be contacted form pulster about the price. We will contact you guys in the Zürich list as soon as we know more --Tuxfux.ch 10:26, 6 June 2008 (UTC)Alexandre Ghisoli will not organize the second 10pack, since the order moved in the Lucca's group.

Customs and Postage

I called the Swiss Federal Customs Administration and it seems that we only need to pay VAT (7.6%) and the UPS taxes as well (since the parcel will be sent through UPS). Thus I called UPS and it seems that UPS directly pays the VAT instead of the customer, then asking the customer for refund (plus a fixed tax of EUR13.00). So I think the following per-phone cost for a Swiss bulk order should be a good estimate.

I ordered the 10pack. Delivery is in mid september (plus shipping to Zurich.)

I will organice the next 10pack as soon as this list is full. You may Pick up the Phone at the ETH Zürich (money: exact amount in cash or directly to my bank-account in advance) or I will send it to you (money: directly to my bank-account in advance including the Porto). The other conditions are the same as above. (Joerg Maeder/Goergel)

Hardware fix material for GPS problem

There is a problem with the GPS in the currently shipping FreeRunners: Mail archive. I already orderd 200 "10pf NPO 50V 0402" capacitors for convenient reselling. They will arrive within 10 days from now (2008.07.21).

The conditions to get those capacitors from me:

You'll receive 5 capacitors (In case you trash the first 4, soldering could be tricky)

You send me an envelope with CHF 2.- (coin) and an already to yourself addressed and stamped envelope

I don't accept stamps for payment!! Don't even try!!

If you can't spell your own address corretly, --> can't be my problem!

I'll post my address here as soon as I got the delivery.

So add yourself to the list here if you want'em:
Status : 3/40 (#: delivered)

Suisse romande / Morges

I'll order a pack for Switzerland people. The price of FreeRunner will be 460 CHF all inclusive (VAT and shipping in your post box)
Contact me here: Contact if you want one.
We are already 6, so 4 remaining. Contact me at : jec at jesc dot ch

Mid-Atlantic

District of Columbia (DC) Metro Area

Virginia

Virginia Tech (1/10)

Richmond

Philippe and Steve joined the NY list

New York (19/20)

As of 8 July 2008 we still need five people to pay in order to complete a second batch of ten. Just because there are twenty names on this list doesn't mean you can't join in.
PLEASE contact Bert or Michael in addition to adding yourself to the list

(Between the 2 groups, we already have 7 "visibly" from Worchester - Western MA...I think the group should be resorted....Who is the contact where the package will be sent?)

Looking to Join in. I have been trying to get a response from anyone about joining group but nothing back. Live in Boston but will travel to get. Somebody let me know soon please. Interest in user group in Boston Cambridge area too. email me

Nevada

Reno/Sparks

UK

Scotland

Edinburgh

The Wiki's e-mail feature (those URLs with “Special:Emailuser” in them) does not seem to be working. I tried contacting Dave Ball and Stuart MacKinnon that way and got no reply. Later, Stuart and Dave (who I reached by writing a message here) told me they never got the e-mail. So the Wiki's e-mail feature might be broken. So please contact me by going to my web page and using my e-mail address listed there. Stuart, George, and Dave have been in contact with me by e-mail. I am happy to put anyone in Scotland who sends me e-mail in touch with the others.

Not enough people have gotten in touch so far (as of 2008-06-28) to justify a bulk order of a 10-pack. Also, there is now a UK distributor: TrueBox. Because TrueBox appears to be ordering 10-packs (and thereby getting the bonus goodies (headphones and pouches) that come in the 10-packs), it seems there is little motivation to try to organize a Scottish bulk order. So I am likely to give up on the idea of a Scottish bulk order for myself (unless lots of people contact me in the next day or so!).

phone 399-365 USD ( 365 if we got 10-pack price, but if not exactly 10, I prefer we share the discount.)

Dboard 99 USD

Spares Pack 49 USD

Maybe there will be tax, or other cost that should be shared. so it is not the final figure.

080730 status update by mkl23

Thanks to the generosity of Harry of openmoko, there will be a group sale in Taiwan for sure.

If we can collect 10 piece, then we could have the 10-pack price. But even if we can't , they would still accept the order.

One that are interested in Taiwan, please send an e-mail to mkl23@hotmail.com, and specify the amount of the phone, debug board(DBoard), and spare packs that you want, along with your name and phone number.

I hope it could be done fast, so the due date will be 8/17. Than I'll send the order to openmoko.

I don't have such group sale experience yet, so mail me if you have any concern or question want to ask.